Quotes About Mending

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

It's what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can't easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another...Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you me

Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation's spirit can be achieved.

By the hungry, I will feed you. By the poor, I'll make you rich. By the broken, I will mend you. Tell me: which one is which?

Did I imagine that this was our pattern for all time? That we could grow old together, accusing and forgiving? Back then, I dind't know what forever looked like. Maybe I don't even know now. But that night in Piney Woods, I believed that our marriage was a fine-spun tapestry, fragile but fixable. We tore it often and mended it, always with a silken thread, lovely but sure to give way.

You can't break something and mend it a moment later with pretty words. Broken things stay broken. Wounds heal into scars, not skin.

Everyone else had managed to pick up the tatters and mend them into wearable lives. Why couldn't he?

He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.

La grandeur du peuple juif, c'est justement d'apporter aux autres, même si les autres ne veulent pas entendre - c'est tikkun olam même pour ceux qui ne veulent pas entendre. [youtube, watch?v=jlVMft1jtiE]

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).

But if it failed to show itself she would not grieve too deeply, for fear that the mending of broken hearts be a puzzle neither wit nor time had the skill to solve.

Angels mend our patchwork hearts with threads of love.

Let judgment be in the courts. This isn't about politics, or faith, or even race. It's about the right to be free from hate. I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself.

scraps of love torn and tattered faded, scattered trashed threads of hope frayed and tangled broken, mangled dashed backing, buttons yarn and batting quilted tenderly wrapped up in this warm repair my patchwork family

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I used the time to get up to date with some reading, filing, mending the car, and also – because of the new legislation – to register Pickwick as a pet rather than a wild dodo.